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Offline MartyJ

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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #45 on: March 14, 2010, 09:46:37 PM »
Quote from: v8racefan on March 14, 2010, 09:43:13 PM
Good work marty

Would the coin door look any better in gun metal rather than silver?? The silver surround looks good  ^^^



To be honest, I won't know until its back together.  I can get 500ml of Gunmetal made up, but it starts to add up as 2k is not cheap!
I will see the colours and post a pic and see what you guys reckon.
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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #46 on: March 28, 2010, 06:27:58 PM »
Making progress slowly...

Coin door sprayed in gunmetal hammertone - as close to original as I could get.

Most of the internals are in, just waiting to work out what I'm going to do with the control panel...

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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #47 on: March 28, 2010, 09:44:34 PM »
Looks great marty  ^^^

That coin door looks awesome, thanks for posting the updates
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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #48 on: March 28, 2010, 10:11:20 PM »

Nice Marty !

There are two variants of Speed Racer;

Taito - A smaller black steering wheel, the marquee is slightly different, and the color is orange

Fuji - The woodgrain steering wheel and the color is more of a very light orange or a darker yellow.
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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #49 on: May 31, 2010, 07:58:48 PM »
Any updates on this restoration marty??
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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #50 on: May 31, 2010, 08:14:55 PM »
Its close....I've been absolutely swamped with machines of late.  I've just got to rebuild coin door and dash then she's done!

Hopefully will get some pics up soon!
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Re: 1974 Taito Speed Race restoration
« Reply #51 on: June 11, 2010, 07:51:14 PM »
Quote from: Strangeways on March 28, 2010, 10:11:20 PM

Nice Marty !

There are two variants of Speed Racer;

Taito - A smaller black steering wheel, the marquee is slightly different, and the color is orange

Fuji - The woodgrain steering wheel and the color is more of a very light orange or a darker yellow.

I have the Fuji version with a wooden wheel.
The orange laminate looks to be the same colour but the "dash" is covered with black vinyl type covering.
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